Popular classical music singer Anup Barua entertained the audience presenting evergreen Manna Dey’s songs in a commemorative programme organised by Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in memory of the recently demised legendary singer of India. A popular classical and semi-classical singer Barua gave a soulful presentation of Dey’s 18 songs at the programme
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Suman Chowdhury renders Tagore songs
The versatile singer Suman Chowdhury, who achieved success rendering Nazrul Sangeet and classical music, proved his skill as a Rabindra Sangeet artiste in a solo musical programme at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Friday evening. The audience enjoyed five evergreen Tagore songs presented by Chowdhury from his first Tagore album
BSA arranges acrobatic workshop for children
Fifty children aged between five and 15 are getting training on difficult acrobatic techniques at a workshop at the Rajbari Acrobatic Centre. Two acrobats, Shahana Akhter and Khurshida Khatun, are conducting the three-month workshop organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy with the mission to create skilled acrobatic artistes. Despite a huge popularity, acrobatic is neglected in ... Read more
Krrish 3 gets a grand opening
‘Krrish 3’ is equipped with a spectacular range of special effects and extravagant action sequences. Actor Hrithik Roshan returns as the superhero with the film that is third installment in the franchise that began with ‘Koi… Mil Gaya’ in 2003, reports India Today. Vivek Oberoi plays Kaal, the villain, in the movie that is directed and ... Read more
Animesh deals with urban family crisis
Zero Degree, a film featuring the stories of an urban crisis-torn family life where the focus is on the people’s lives when family bond becomes weak, started its shooting phase. The maharat of the film was held at the Seven Hill Restaurant on Tuesday noon through a grand opening show. The director and the scriptwriter ... Read more
Swani Zubayeer composes playback of a film
Talented musician Swani Zubayeer will direct the music of a film for the first time. The film titled Ghashphool directed by Akram Khan contains two songs namely – Shomoy theme giyechhilo, lyric by Mohammad Rafiquazzaman and composed by Lucky Akhand; and Bohudin por, lyric and composition by Swani Zubayeer herself. ‘I have lent my voice for
Tagore’s songs presented
Chhayanaut artistes presented a number of Tagore songs at the monthly Tagore evening Geetmalika on Thursday at the Ramesh Chandra Dutt Centre of the institute. Chhayanaut arranges such a programme on the last Friday of every month. But this month it was on a Thursday due to unavailability of halls. In a very ordinary arrangement
Rural serenity on display
Two artists from outside the capital are displaying a number of landscape paintings featuring the harmonious relation between man and nature set against the backdrop of the rural Bangla at the duet exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan. As both of the artists are from the agricultural rich southwest part of the country, ... Read more
Singers to pay tribute to Manna Dey today
Different singers of the country will present recently demised legendary singer Manna Dey’s evergreen songs in phono-live concerts and live musical programme today. Sumon Chowdhury and Alak Sen will render Manna Dey’s songs at the special phono-live programme titled Icchey Gaaner Dupur to be aired at 2:30pm on Maasranga TV. Besides presenting
Azizul Hakim directs drama serial
Azizul Hakim is directing a drama serial named Nijgrihe Parobashi, which Banglavision started to broadcast from last Sunday. In addition, the seasoned actor nowadays is busy with acting in different drama serials. Nijgrihe Parobashi, written by Hakim’s wife Zinat Hakim, features sweet and bitter experiences of a newly
Udichi artistes present popular songs
Forty-five artistes of different branches of Udichi Shilpigoshthi in chorus presented the signature tune of the organisation, Arshir samne eka eka, at the 45th founding anniversary programme at TSC of Dhaka University on Tuesday. Udichi Shilpigoshthi singers also performed the popular songs, they rendered on different occasions, such as Amra manusher joyogaan gai, Hushiyar, Dhor ... Read more
Kamar Ahmad Simon shares his Sydney tour
Kamar Ahmad Simon attended the Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2013 in Sydney along with selected filmmakers from around the world who shared their hands-on experience in filmmaking. He also took a ‘master class’ on October 06 in which he shared his experience of making film in Bangladesh. The architect turned director
Eid albums fail to attract much audience
Only a few out of the 70 audio and video albums released in a week during the Eid-ul-Azha could make profit, said sources at the production houses of the country. The production houses admitted that their strategy of releasing huge number of albums to resurrect the slumped trade audio market had actually failed. They further admitted ... Read more
Banglavision pays tribute to Manna Dey
Popular singers Badshah Bulbul and Moutushi will sing songs of Manna Dey in a tributary phonolive studio concert to be aired today at 11:25pm on Banglavision. In the programme titled Music Club, the singers will present popular numbers of the late music icon Manna Dey. Besides, they will share theirexperiences with the recently demised Dey. Audience ... Read more
Shahartoli releases 2nd album
Shahartoli came to discussion after releasing a song on Felani tragedy that made the people protest against such barbaric border killings by Border Security Force of India. In fact, most of the songs of its debut album, Borabor, released by the band in 2011 were social message oriented. The band, which has also
The short-lived genius of timeless classics
Sukumar Ray’s 116th birth anniversary Born at a time that was the pinnacle of the Bengal Renaissance, Sukumar Ray grew up in an environment that fostered his literary talents. His father, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, was a talented writer of stories and popular science; painter and illustrator extraordinaire; musician and composer of songs; a pioneering technologist ... Read more
Samina’s new solo album hits the stores
After a long hiatus, popular singer Samina Chowdhury’s solo album titled “Cholo Banchi” has been released. The album, featuring a total of 10 songs was unveiled at a function in a city hotel with AKM Arifur Rahman, chairman of Laser Vision, in the chair last week. Among others, lyricists Md Rafiquzzaman, Kabir Bakul, music director Ahmed ... Read more
Delicate prints depict various issues
Sixteen artists deal with various issues in their delicate wood engraving works known as xylography in a group exhibition on display at the Gallery Cosmos 2 in Mohakhali. The 10-day exhibition features 44 wood engraving prints done by the participants of a printmaking workshop conducted by artist professor Amirul Momanin Chowdhury organised by the gallery ... Read more
Rubel busy in serials
Ahmed Rubel, who has achieved popularity through playing diverse characters both in films and teleplays, is nowadays busy acting in drama serials on small screen. Rubel told New Age in an interview that he was acting in Jewel Mahmud’s family drama serial Badhu Keno Mon Bojhonona as well as in Golam Muktadir Shan’s serial Lota Kombol. ... Read more
Two poets receive Jibanananda award
Two poets were awarded with Jibanananda Purushkar 2013 in a commemorative programme organised marking the 59th death anniversary of Jibanananda Das on Friday in Barisal, the birth place of the poet. Renowned poet Asad Chowdhury, who is also from Barisal, handed over the prizes to the late poet Khondakar Ashraf Hossain and Shantanu Kaisar for ... Read more